س: أنا زوجة أعيش في مصر. زوجي مقيم في دبي. أرغب في رفع قضية طلاق للهجر. هل يلزم وجودي في الإمارات لرفع الدعوى ولا يُكتَفى بتوكيل محامي مقيم في الإمارات؟

Q: I am a resident of Dubai. I want to ask about my husband who brought me from Dubai along with my 3-year-old son by fraud to spend a vacation in Pakistan in Dec 2019. He forcefully took over child passport and other documents of UAE visa and left us alone in Pakistan and runaway back to UAE. I am on an employment visa and my son is under his father's visa. I need to come back, but my husband is keeping the passport in Dubai with him and he is not ready to give it back to me. I am stuck in Pakistan as I need to bring my son to UAE. Now he threatens that he misplaced all my personal belongings; my gold, jewellery and important documents in my absence from home in Dubai. He wants to divorce me in Pakistan; that's why he is forcing me to stay in Pakistan so I cannot file a maintenance and child care claim in Dubai. If I come back to Dubai, can I get help to get my son's passport from him in order to bring him to the UAE because the child can't live without his mother?

Q: I am here in India and my husband works in Dubai. He has abandoned me and my children. He is calling me up now and threatening me of committing suicide, and also he wrote a suicide letter which mentions my name on it so that I get caught. I have a video where I have recorded all this conversation of him threatening me on a call. I have already reported this matter to Dubai police but no action has been taken. I want to report against him for mental harassment against me and my children and non-stop threats to my life, along with mentally harassing me with suicide threats.

Parents have welcomed the UAE’s new child protection law which is a pivotal source to help to provide children and youngsters with ​a safer and happier living in the UAE.

UAE Personal Status Law (also known as Personal Affairs Law) governs marriage, divorce, inheritance and other personal affairs in the United Arab Emirates. The law equally applies to citizens of the UAE and non-citizens unless one of them asks for the application of his home country law.